CV
Mgr. LENKA MORÁVKOVÁ, Dis.
EDUCATION
PhD program
University California Riverside, USA 2015 - 2017
Department of Music, Ethnomusicology major with minor in Digital Composition
Charles University, Faculty of Humanities, Prague 2011 - 2014
department of Social Anthropology with a focus on Ethnomusicology
University of California, Los Angeles, USA 2013 - 2014
Herb Alpert School of Music, department of Ethnomusicology, Visiting Graduate Researcher
Master of Arts
Charles University, Faculty of Humanities, Prague 2006 - 2008
department of Electronic culture and Semiotics, minor in Anthropology
Thesis:
Breakcore: Blurring the Lines - Cultural Analysis of Urban Electronic Genre Breakcore and Ethnographic Case Study of Cuban Magic Santería in Music of Otto Von Schirach
Bachelor of Arts
Josef Škvorecký Academy of Literature, Prague 2007 - 2008
Thesis:
Current Tendencies in Performance Art in the Czech Republic
Private College of Journalism, VOŠP, Prague 2001- 2004
Charles University, Pedagogic faculty, French and social media, Prague 2001- 2004
ARTISTIC EXPERIENCE
https://www.bohemiancristalinstrument.com
international touring and exhibitions, grants, scholarships and art residencies
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Workshops and lecture with Bohemian Cristal Instrument internationally 2017 on
Awarded VIP Gluck Fellowship at University California Riverside for workshop Crystal Playground for kids from underserved communities 2017
Teaching Assistant, course Popular Music of the World, leading of discussion sessions fall 2016
Graduate seminar Current topics in Ethnomusicology, Department of Social Anthropology, Charles University, Prague winter and spring 2015
Workshop leader, Electronic Playground for Instant Acts Against Rasism and Violence 2013
tour of 20 selected international artists in forty high schools and prisons in culturally underserved parts of Germany
JOURNALISTIC EXPERIENCE
Host of own radio show Tearoom with KnofLenk, the Czech National Radio 3, 2010 - 2015
Music editor for national czech newspapers Lidove noviny 2010 - 2012
Music editor for magazine Respekt 2009/2010
Script editor and reporteur of Musicblock and Kosmopolis, Czech TV 2008 -2009
Music editor of overground magazine ŽIVEL 2009
Music editor in magazine Rock and Pop, own pages XeLectronic 2005 - 2007
SELECTED PAPERS and PRESENTATIONS
„ Art As and Applied Philosophy of Life: Aspects of commodification and audience participation in the Baschet Brothers’s Work “ World Music Colloquium, Mexico City, Universidad de Mexico, 2023
„ Art As and Applied Philosophy of Life: Aspects of commodification and audience participation in the Baschet Brothers’s Work “ World Music Colloquium, festival in Náměšť Nad Oslavou, CZ, 2016
“TEDx Talk/Performance” with Bohemian Cristal Instrument, University of California Riverside, April 2016
“Glass Spilled Out From The Broken Bath” performance, Conference Music And Labor, University of Toronto, 2016
“Glass Spilled Out From The Broken Bath” performance, Conference Locations And Dislocations, Rider University, Princeton, 2016
“From Favelas To Top Charts: Commodification of Brazilian Genre Favela Funk Through One Sample Story”, SEMSCHC Conference UCLA, Los Angeles 2016
„Music of Favela Funk as a new source of Power and Pride for Favelados“ Conference on Phenomenon of Power and Inequality, University of Social and Economic Science, Bratislava, Slovakia, 2014
„My Art Is a Big Apology of a White Man Living in a Privilege World”, article and interview with new media artist Jeremy Bailey, published in new media magazine Digicult, Italy, 2012
„Performative Aspect of the Breakcore Music Genre“ World Music Colloquium, festival in Náměšť Nad Oslavou, CZ, 2012
GRANTS, SCHOLARSHIPS, RESIDENCIES
ISEA 2023, concept of the upcoming music video NEW NATURE selected for presentation from 1600 applications.
Various grants by SoundCzech (export of the Czech music) and Ministry of Culture of the Czech Republic , 2015 and on
ASEF Grant – traveling to perform in Indonesia at SETI conference and festival, 2018
OSA (Author's Right Organization) „Talent“ Scholarship, debut EP UNICODE by ‘Bohemian
Cristal Instrument’, June 2018
VIP Gluck Fellowship at UCR – workshops with Bohemian Cristal Instrument, 2016 - 2017
City of Pardubice Grant, 2015
OSA (Author's Right Organization) „Talent“ Scholarship, funding of the new ‘My Name Is Ann’ music video, June 2015
Fond of Mobility Grant, Faculty of Humanities, Visiting Graduate researcher at UCLA, Sept 2013
Prvouk Grant, Visiting Graduate researcher at UCLA, Oct 2013
OSA (Author's Right Organization) „Talent“ Scholarship, funding for a study stay at UCLA, Oct 2013
City of Prague Grant, project „This Is Not A Really Pleasant Sound“, Sept 2012
Specific Research Grant, ethnographic research of a Breakcore genre in Miami, Nov 2010
Youth in Action grant, audiovisual project/experimental documentary „Glass Spilled Out of the Broken Bathtub“, 2010
Pepinnieres pour les jeunnes artists, Art Residency, Huesca, Spain, 2007
City of Prague Grant, a „Reciclatge Tour“ My Name Is Ann!, Sept 2006
COMPUTER SKILLS and LANGUAGES
Music Programs: Ableton Live, Max MSP, Max For Live, Sibelius
English - very good - speaking and writing
French – good – speaking and writing
Spanish – medium level – speaking and writing
Czech – native language